Critics say the systems we use to educate the brightest kids are flawed and exclusionary. What if it’s the very premise of ...

I Was Enrolled In A 'Gifted' Program As A Kid. Years Later, I Discovered A Dark Side I Never Knew About.

Education Week surveyed hundreds of teachers and coordinators of gifted-and-talented education programs last year on a range of topics. What did not emerge from the survey was a standard definition of ...

There’s a remarkable and welcome transformation happening in gifted education. Many educators are moving away from identifying some children as "gifted"—and everyone else therefore as "not gifted"—and ...

Gifted-education programs were created as a way to help the brightest students develop their full academic potential and keep them engaged in school. In practice, though, these programs often “miss” ...

The father of four gifted children, Brad Rine of Metairie has no doubt that the specialized education they have received in Jefferson Parish public schools is, in fact, "special education." One day ...

In an era when demands for “equity” have inspired efforts to eliminate the SAT and defund charter schools, it’s no great surprise that gifted education has also been under attack. Thankfully, de ...

Looking back on my educational journey, I recently reflected on my classroom experiences from kindergarten to fourth grade. The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I ...

After this school year, the city’s public schools are doing away with the gifted education identification test used to sort kids in the early years. The test, which is taken by students as young as 4 ...

His mother was teaching a new program that would change her students' lives forever. A lifetime later, they helped teach him how she did it. The last time the musical "Spamalot" came to town, my phone ...

Participating in a gifted and talented program improved high-ability students’ reading and math achievement, on average, nationwide, I found in a new study. However, in reading, these achievement ...